I think its do with the fact that your fighters aren`t as important as you think they are..and that the days of American champions is fast becoming a thing of the past...and you are pissing your pants about it.
Unlike europeans who are apparently plagued by chronic inferiority syndrome, I could care less where the fighter is from. I only care that if a fighter claims to be a great world champion, he has to actually accomplish great feats to earn that right. A good place to start is unifying your division and defending it from all the world's top contenders for years, becoming champion of higher weight classes, and defeating the greatest fighters of your era.
Kessler, Froch, and Calzone belong in ballet, not boxing. All they do is dance around each other.
Oooooh, the WBO title, which was vacant, for a decade. Hm, I guess he was just too lazy to unify his division over 10 years. That's just pathetic. He has accomplished not a single benchmark of greatness and that's why nobody respects him in the boxing world.
Seriously, how can you brits be proud of such a fight. Don't you remember Lennox Lewis? Someone tell what in the world about Calzag can compare to a true great fighter like lewis?
u c the problem with mayweather is that
he is an asshole that talks shit
but he kan back it up...
thats everyone's problem
he is the villian that superhero kant conquer
Someone needs a superhero english teacher...
You still havent answered the question about baseball gloves. You are from a culture that wears pillow cases with holes cut for eyes and burn people because of the colour of their skin???
Just answer the baseball question
I bet you get a lot of backache, with all the bowing down to Israel.
The great thing about arguing with a brit is they lay their own traps and step in them for you.
The brits invented slavery and racism with their centuries of imperialism. Forgot it was the brits who brought slaves to America in the first place? LOL Africa and the middle east is still fucked up thanks to european meddling. Israel? She's our bitch, just like Britain. See, you both have something in common: you do what America tells you to do. You know this is the truth and that's why it hurts.
Lewis was a great fighter. He unified his division, fought the best in a great era, and avenged each of his rare losses in decisive fashion. He was the first and last great euro fighter.
Come on... Trinidad is a blown-up welterweight, Calzaghe walks around at 205 without looking the least bit chubby.
Ha, that's funny. Show me a pic of the Welsh girl weighing 205 without his wet dress on.
Because brits are so thin skinned. The facts are clear: Joe is fighting a monumental JOKE of a fight where he may very well kill the other fighter in the ring, that's how much of a mismatch this is. No great fighter would have taken that fight.
P4P the brits would piss all over your load of musle bound, pumped up, trigger happy, gung ho meatheads. Our Special Forces are by for the best in the world, and if you argue that you realy are a moron.
LOL! Wow you brits use the same low standards for your armed forces as you do for your boxers. Name the last accomplishment brit spec ops ever succeeded in completing? Stop watching 007 re-runs.
Time to make some room on your little isle for our missile defense shield. We told you it's getting put there whether you like it or not. After all, we'd rather blow up incoming nukes over Britain than let them near our shores.
Don't get me wrong, I love American football and once you understand the game a little better it makes great sense. Far to much fannying about but it's a good one to watch with your mates because the commercial breaks don't matter as much.
But it's interesting when Americans espouse manliness yet don't really live it.
This from a canadian? What has canada EVER done that has made a real impact on world events? You're just lucky that frozen pond you call home is too worthless for us to annex as our 51st state.
A fix?
You were a victim of child molestation, right?
Just man up and admit the obvious.
All brits are victims of molestation. That's how they become crazed enough to believe calzone isn't a running joke.
Least known Contender fighter? That'd be Joe Calzone. I had no idea he was a Contender fighter until he started fighting all the Contender personalities. Pretty soon he'll be challenging lightweights to fly over to Wales and fight him. Once they turn 40, that is.
It seems euro fighters only care about being local town heroes, not about actually proving to the world they are the best by unifying their division and owning all the world titles. Maybe it's a cultural thing and they are just underacheivers.
Come on Kessler, Froch, Calzone...what do we have to do, lock you girls in a room and find out who's the real man among you?
Don't forget which country burned your capital in 1812. And how exactly did the US "rescue" anyone in the First World War? It's hard to rescue people by staying home and plunging your entire economy into depression. World War II was a tough situation, and without the Lend-Lease programme the Allies would have sunk. I'm not going to gloss over the US contribution to the war effort, because it was essential. But the way you jibber on about it you would think that noone was doing anything until the Americans put on their stetsons and moseyed on down to Midway and Normandy. You seem to forget the immense sacrifice made by the commies who you also apparently protected us from.
As for the British death toll, you have a very limited knowledge of history. It's not a pissing contest. And the Spaniards are probably still winning anyway.
Ah, the war of 1812. We were in process of annexing that piss ant frozen pond up north we call Canada when the british, nosy little bastards that they are, just had to interfere. Well, while the red tarts did manage to somehow stumble their way onto our White House lawn, don't forget that in the end the 20 year old American Navy embarassed the British's supposed world's greatest navy on the open seas and the Great Lakes, forcing them to sue for a truce. And that, boys and girls, was the beginning of the end of for Britain as a world power. She basically became our bitch from then on to present day.
Meanwhile, the US was never attacked on its own soil again until 1941 by Japan, and today America has the greatest military, economic, and political power in the world. Well, no wonder people are jealous. It's tough being #1.
Hey, how about those sailors? I see you didn't make any excuses for them. Well then again, the Iranians did defeat the British and kick them out of the middle east.
Even calzaghe said that was a premature stoppage and Barry Mcguigan was livid in his analysis. Im angry with Manfredo for not fighting back but theres no getting away from it that was a terrible stoppage and a bad day for british boxing when a referee like that can take charge of a world title fight. So thanks Frank Warren for another pointless card...fuck sake what a waste of a night.
holy shit, a logical comment from a brit. I thought you guys were incapable of telling the truth.
Yep you sure are a steroitypical american. What a great post. As far as our forces are concerened you cant argue that we are P4P world best undistputed.
You have not yet responded to the question about why big gloves are required to catch a semi hard ball in baseball??? it appears to be girly in the extreme.
LOL, this from the same culture that wears skirts and plays bagpipes. Here in America we call those folks drag queens.
Oh and yeah, the brits are soooo tough. The Iranians tortured their sailors and marines for 2 weeks with three square meals, business suits, and blindfolds...in 3 days there were on television kissing the feet of Ahmedinajad. Cowards to the very last.
You didn't conquer vietnam you moron, your soldiers got caught up in a conflict that was absolutely non of their business and were completely ripped to shreds, forcing your government to pull the plug. The actions of your cowardly servicemen during that war were a disgrace.
Learn to read you Iranian lapdog. While the krauts had you crying in the basement the US defeated Japan, the latter of which is the only nation to have conquered Vietnam.
Now, go put your burka back on and celebrate the release of your sorry excuse for sailors. Britain has been the land of cowards every since its back was broken by Germany.
It doesn't take much to dismantle the poor logic of a Calzone fanboy. Even more impressive is the fact that you still fail to name a single great fighter that Calzone ever defeated. Has he accomplished anything at all? Not really. It's impressive that Calzone has no shame at all that he is fighting Manfrodo. Wow, what a champion!
Who exactly considered Lacy to be "the top fighter in the world" exactly? Give me the link to any article in a reputable publication that said this.
Let me guess, you also believe Peter to be a great fighter too? He may become one someday, but he isn't today.
That's war, or did you brits forget that? I guess you also forgot the violent past of britain which slaughtered 100s of thousands of muslims over multiple crusades, enslaved and slaughtered countless indiginous people over centuries of imperialism, and more recently participated in carpet bombing of german cities. I guess your shit stinks just as much as ours.
And btw, America may have lost 50,000 troops in Vietnam, but we took 2 million Vietnamese with us. Oh, and thanks for the help in Iraq...together we've taken 500,000 Iraqis out.
We've been around for 300 years. It'll take us another 300 to catch up with the british death toll.
Sorry, but thats a stupid post.
Lacy doesnt count??? Its not that he beat him, its the fact he beat the ever loving piss outa him that counts.
Eubank, Ried, Mitchel, Brewer, Veit, Shieka. All have fought at world championship level, and Joe beat them all. He is undefeated.
By ur reasoning, who has Manfredo beaten?
He has been beaten by Mora twice at middleweight. And who the fuck is Mora??
Just use some common sense.
You're an idiot. If Calzone was anything but a good euro fighter, he wouldn't be fighting a circus joke like Frodo. PERIOD. That shows exactly what kind of fighter Calzone is. He is a coward through and through.
What are you on about????? Froch has got an agreement with Golden Boy for fights in the USA. And had already faught in USA
Girls in Europe???? we dont need big fuckin gloves to catch a ball when its a bit hard.
A cultural thing?? You got your ass whipped by fuckin Vietnam
There are some american guys talk intelligently on this site, but im afraid you fall into the steriotype.
Aw, looks like I touched a raw nerve. Brits are so sensitive. Well, this morning we saw a display of classic european courage when the captive Brit sailors, after weeks of braying like sheep for Iranian propaganda, were finally set free. So much for the people of Churchill. It seems the British and French are not so dissimilar after all.
Oh sure, Vietnam. You know, the same country the Japanese conquered in WW2, which we then conquered. Don't forget which country kicked you out of the Western world, rescued you in WW1 and WW2, and protected you throughout the Cold War.
Of course, Britain is our obedient little lap dog in Iraq right now. Just continue doing what you're told and we'll toss you a bone every now and then.
whoa, hold up there....taylor is still green but he is a league above frodo. The point though is that calzaghe likes to stage joke fights he knows he can win.
Great champions fight risky wars. Wars like Ali-Frazier, Leonard-Hearns.
Hey brits, name a single war that was like those two I just named. Your boxing sucks! Now no american will every fight there. Even germany has better boxing.